Chesham Bowling Club

Chesham Bowling Club

The Park, Bury Lane, Chesham, HP5 1HX. Telephone: 01494 783568

The club travelled to an away fixture at Berkhamsted last week but lost 65 shots to 85. We had a top winning rink of Trish Parsons, Beryl Meldrum, Colin Parsons and David Sills.

A ladies triple at Potten End also resulted in a loss of 43 shots to 56, Highest triple Babs Williams, Molly Young and Helen Fillery.

A team from Desborough (Maidenhead) visited Chesham at the weekend. The result was a good win for Chesham of 136 shots to 106. Top rink Derek Puddephat, Sylvia Warrington, Brian Cox and Shirley Gardiner.

A trip to Amersham resulted in another loss but by 1 shot only 53-54. The highest triple was Jean McNab, Jane Evans and Molly Young.

Chesham hosted a team from Bovingdon, the first match for many years, and won 146 to 109 shots. The top rink was George Fudge, David Hobbs, Pam Hooper and Pat Rodgers who also scored a Hot Shot!.

In the first round of the Burnham Plate the rink of Jane Evans, Fay Holmes, Dot Burgin and June Holland defeated Broadway by 20 shots, scoring 34-14.

The Chesham ladies have had some success in the County 2-wood competition. Jean McNab reached the quarter final and was narrowly beaten by Nicola Ash from Stony Stratford by one shot, 14-15.  Pat Rodgers beat Leslie Throup (Princes Risborough) 18-15 in the quarter final and Nicole Ash 20-15 in the semi-final. Pat will now go on to compete in the County final and represent Bucks in the National finals in August.

Not to be outdone several of our male bowlers have reached County quarter finals.: singles: Howard Cave, pairs: Harley Neems and Diet Townend, tr iples:  Mick Skerry, Michael Birch and David Coles and fours: Howard  Cave, Ray Keen, Harley Neems and Keith Patrick, and David Coles, Michael Birch, Diet Townend and Mick Skerry.

11th July 2011